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mircea_popescu: They tell how England required of me
a Commission of Inquiry into Congo atrocities, and how, to quiet that meddling country, with its disagreeable Congo Reform Association, made up of earls and bishops and John Morleys and university grandees and other dudes, more interested in other people's business than their own, I appointed it. Did it stop their mouths? No, they merely pointed out that it was
a commission composed
mircea_popescu: They tell it all: how I am wiping
a nation of friendless creatures out of existence by every form of murder, for my private pocket's sake. But they never say, although they know it, that I have labored in the cause of religion at the same time and all the time, and have sent missionaries there (of
a "convenient stripe," as they phrase it), to teach them the error of their ways and bring them to Him who is all mercy and
mircea_popescu: it can be
a special, delegated key for this purpose alone.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla can include
a 3rd file with signed sha hashes ?
decimation: it accomplished nothing politically, but it's
a good sourcebook for rough calculations of this sort
decimation: asciilifeform:
http://www.withouthotair.com/cD/page_284.shtml "The power per unit area of bioethanol from corn is astonishingly low. Just for fun, let’s report the numbers first in archaic units. 1 acre produces 122 bushels of corn per year, which makes 122 × 2.6 US gallons of ethanol, which at 84 000 BTU per gallon means
a power per unit area of just 0.02 W/m2E – and we haven’t taken into account any of the energy losses in
mircea_popescu: nature does these contortions, because nature's
a whore.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is
a good objection. which is why i'm not fixated on ecology.
mircea_popescu: do the math, of what's the cost per calorie to fatten
a woman
mircea_popescu: and no government yet has had the audacity to go to
a group of self impressed idiots and tell them the sort of thing i say
mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy has
a point , and that point is : the expectations of us citizens, and their self valuations, are wildly divergent from reality.
mircea_popescu: now, i wouldn't be in favour of this as
a general thing,
mircea_popescu: plus, if you're going to fuck
a girl, it's usually better to do her in women's.
mircea_popescu: so wait. the thing that steals sometimes
a lot and sometimes
a little is the nerw normal. and so when it only steals
a little it... TRANSFERS money from the thief to the victim ?
mircea_popescu: decimation anyway, as
a male that usually uses the women's restroom, im pro tolerance.
danielpbarron: not breaking from reddit form, they didn't really have much of
a basis
decimation: so, some guy telling
a confused chick to leave the locker room is the same as murdering?
decimation: lol from article: "but really when it comes to actually creating resources that support and protect transgender and other marginalized students, they have really dragged their feet and have taken
a really long time…and in the meantime students’ lives are at risk.”
decimation: "Anyway let’s try to go back to first principles
a little here. Read through the glowing, er, defense of inflation and it boils down to the same basic story: ‘oh noes wages are sticky’."
mircea_popescu: it's gotten to the point where inflation's being dressed up as necessary. well... it is. should interest rates move to
a very liberal 5% the us is unable to finance even its interest alone.
decimation: there's
a complex dance between what congress 'authorizes' and 'appropriates'
mircea_popescu: not
a balanced budget mind you. just, you know, one at all.
decimation: but it turned out that nobody who mattered was actually
a moderate (in France)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> stalin could also have problems. << Well Tito is
a serious amount of problem to have.
mircea_popescu: there's dire need for more politically minded people to make it
a point.
mircea_popescu: let the sinecure become
a central point of the progressive - sane person debate.
mircea_popescu: consider that the protestants choked the catholics, with
a very lively french government that sinecured them to heaven.
mircea_popescu: point remains : once there's
a penalty to being
a progressive, things can be turned into some sort of shape.
mircea_popescu: up until he couldn't anymore, at which point all sorts of other idiots had
a whole troughful of problems.
mircea_popescu: the simple knowledge that you will NEVER be
a linux developer, ever, is
a good start.
decimation: redhat does quite
a bit of backporting
mircea_popescu: very important to promote
a lot more people who are actually willing to kill these idiots, not just ignore them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, they don't need
a king you see. they're sans coulottes, they talk
a lot, and that's all that's needed.
BingoBoingo: Kinda, but with layers of stupid coming into conflict.
A stupid schism.
mircea_popescu: is this like that one time when the idiot murican journos threw
a fit that the french president didn't care about whatever stupid shit they had picked to make their world out of, and then were never heard from again ?
BingoBoingo: Highligh:>> UPDATE: ModelViewCulture CEO Shanley Kane has asked me to describe her not as
a "diversity advocate" or "diversity activist" and to instead identify her as the co-founder and CEO of
a media company that is better than the one I work for. According to its website, ModelViewCulture is "an independent media platform focused on the intersection of technology, culture and diversity." So: nothing to do with advocating for di
ben_vulpes: <PeterL> [] could you make
a version of monopoly which allows people to drop in after the game has started? << bitcoin monopoly?!
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: anyway, it could easily be self-financing << only if lots of games are available over time. vis-
a-vis crypto-arcade/midway but meh dunno. Long road is long :P
xanthyos: .0001 per player per entry, and with new players dropping in after the game already started it could have
a cumulative prize pool
PeterL: actually, that sounds like
a fun project
PeterL: could you make
a version of monopoly which allows people to drop in after the game has started?
mircea_popescu: actually... should i put in
a job for
a games bot ? could start it with monopoly. it just keeps dropping pngs of the table after each player's roll
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "arbitrary access to transactions in the chain is not allowed to avoid having clients start to depend on nodes having full transaction indexes" << there has to be more to this story << Prolly related to post 0.8.x versions not keeping
a full txindex by default. Have to set
a flag for them to do it.
PeterL: xanthyos:i'd like to play monopoly with #b-
a members if we could figure out
a place to do the dice << scoopbot started as
a bot to roll dice for me and my friend RPGing over IRC
decimation: "Within 15 seconds, the jet had accelerated to more than 575 mph and was descending at
a 70 degree angle. The pilot, while monitoring his visor-mounted display and doing his best to keep an eye on the other jet, had apparently lost track of his rate of descent."
decimation: "In one of the jets,
a young pilot was flying his first training mission since becoming qualified to use
a special helmet that projects key flight data - such as air speed, altitude, target range - onto his visor. The pilot, investigators learned later, hadn't gone through
a recommended computer-based course before being cleared to fly with the visor-mounted display."
thestringpuller: i only keep 10 lines of IRC in memory at
a time like
a true G
davout: "ohai, i'm
a config file, pls to not edit"
davout: setting up znc was
a painful experience
undata: davout: I'd take
a peak if you like
ben_vulpes: getdata is used in response to inv, to retrieve the content of
a specific object, and is usually sent after receiving an inv packet, after filtering known elements. It can be used to retrieve transactions, but only if they are in the memory pool or relay set - arbitrary access to transactions in the chain is not allowed to avoid having clients start to depend on nodes having full transaction indexes (which modern nodes do not).
undata: sure, if there's
a prefered party that's fine with me
davout: i started toying with it
a bit, apparently undata too
mircea_popescu: (thing does
a stereo *ping* in the direction in question)
mircea_popescu: you know ? just like the jet is not
a self contained machine.
mircea_popescu: most targetting needs both eyes. to propose that poking
a man in one is doing his targetting
a service...
assbot: Logged on 22-12-2013 16:56:53; asciilifeform: 'what people “want” is
a function of what they learn is available. e.g., do Americans want three-ring binders, and Europeans four-ring binders? or do they want binders and take whatever number of holes they come with? or do they want something that can help them organize their papers and take whatever is available? or do they really want
a less cluttered office and ease of storage and retrieval of the
mircea_popescu: if the informtion comes on
a wire, the eye piece is the least vulnerable place.
mircea_popescu: think about it the other way.
a display is merely
a display. it works on information. if the information is all in
a box, then you're probably not
a very good partizan. more of
a hacker. "playing the harmonica" so to speak.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "could cost
a penny". well... how'd they make money then ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the difference might simply be explained by price. so, if
a car costs 20-30k and
a supercar 200 to 300k, whereas
a jet fighter 20 to 30 mn,
ben_vulpes: don't the eyeglass lenses have
a focus at infinity problem?
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